Discovery Park District

10/21/2021

Discovery Park District at Purdue University hosts fortune 500 companies, early-stage startups and everything in between.

"We are building and designing it for 6G technology to make sure we have a connected community and it’s a living, learning lab." - Rich Michal, vice president and chief facilities and building officer for Purdue Research Foundation about the over $50 million in upgrades to the district.

WESTFIELD, Ind.– Grand Park refuses to sit on the sidelines of the sports industry. “They’ve got an opportunity to do something that no one else around the world is doing,” said Geoffre Sherm…

10/13/2021

09/27/2021

Join us in person this week to celebrate the Grand Opening of NineTwelve Convergence!
Sept 29, 2021, 5pm-7pm EST
Get an exclusive look at the nation’s very first 5G Living Lab for rapid development.
RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gvnQ6DTz

More details:
Learn how NineTwelve Convergence will bring together technologies, industry, and academic partners with their unique platform to deliver fast-to-market products and services.
Equipped with a full 5G testbed center, the NT Convergence team will be available to connect the IoT industry with higher education, startups, and enterprises looking to collaborate to spur innovation, build businesses and grow economies.

Located at:
Convergence Center
101 Foundry Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47906

Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served. In compliance with CDC guidelines, masks are required when not consuming food or beverages. On street parking and paid parking lot available.

Get an exclusive look at the nation’s very first 5G Living Lab for rapid development. The NineTwelve Convergence Grand Opening is now an in-person reception and will take place at the Convergence Center - located at 101 Foundry Drive, Suite 500, West Lafayette, Indiana. If you can attend, please u...

08/19/2021

Come be a part of the future of hypersonics at the District!

"It will be run as an independent, nonprofit consortium. So, different companies can become members of this consortium," he said. "So, if you look across the trifecta - Purdue University's investment, Rolls-Royce's investment, and now a national-level, industry-wide investment, all happening at the same time in the same place - it is truly exciting."
https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/story/44492373/new-facility-creates-trifecta-of-hypersonics-at-purdue

The dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University says the newly-announced Hypersonic Ground Test Center at the Purdue Aerospace District will

08/02/2021

Exciting news about Rolls-Royce expanding their footprint at Discovery Park District as part of its enhanced partnership with Purdue University. Rolls-Royce sites the unique capability of the high-altitude testing facilities and research environment that will support it's new facility to develop high-altitude and hybrid-electric engines. Read more here:
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2021/Q3/purdue-welcomes-the-largest-economic-development-project-to-west-lafayette-from-rolls-royce-and-invests-in-aerospace-engineering-epicenter.html

Aerospace engine manufacturing giant Rolls-Royce will expand its already large footprint at Purdue, thanks to a new commitment between the university, the Purdue Research Foundation and the company.

07/12/2021

The Newman Road Underpass at Discovery Park District at Purdue University project by American Structurepoint received the 2021 Indiana Engineering Achievement Award from the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers. NSPE-IN gives this award annually to the most outstanding project in Indiana most notable for its quality of design, functionality, energy efficiency, and/or improvement in the environment.

Read more about how the project enhanced public safety, improved access to the growing Discovery Park District Aerospace where high-tech aeronautics research and development occurs, and provided additional opportunity for job growth and economic development here:
https://buildingindiana.com/newman-road-project-receives-indiana-engineering-achievement-award/

Purdue Research Foundation

06/29/2021

Take a peek at Saab Aerospace's new facility at Purdue University's Discovery Park District with Inside INdiana Business, Robert Ulibarri, Gregory Deason and learn more about why Saab chose to locate in the district:
https://lnkd.in/deuPU3Q
Purdue Research Foundation

Sweden-based Saab gave a sneak peek this week of its $37 million plant at Purdue University’s research and business district where it will make fuselages for a new U.S, Air Force training jet. Mary-Rachel Redman with the story from West Lafayette.

06/15/2021

"Companies looking for office space have many details they factor into their decision — amenities, location, nearby attractions — but few factors are more important than access to a wide pool of talent.

Coworking spaces got their start in large U.S. cities like New York, Los Angeles and Boston, where enterprises and startups alike usually choose to set up headquarters or satellite offices. But West Lafayette, Indiana, has one thing those cities don’t: Purdue University and its wide pool of talent, access to research facilities and a vision for a new kind of live, work, play and learn environment."

Read the full article and learn how Carr Workplaces and the Purdue Research Foundation are working together to create a new type of coworking center, Carr Workplaces @ Convergence, which is part of Purdue’s new Discovery Park District: https://www.bisnow.com/chicago/news/coworking/coworking-carr-workspaces-studiob-108504

West Lafayette may not be the first place people think of when they think of coworking. Carr Workplaces and Purdue University are changing that.